YAN WON LIAO v. Holder

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “courts have found privity to exist in . . . cases where the parties represent the interests of the same person, such as in familial relationships”
• dismissing a class action on res judicata grounds because a previous class action “encompassed” the class members and entered “judgment on the merits . . . in favor of the defendants”
• barring a subsequent action where all the plaintiffs had the same “aligned” interests
• “Summary judgment dismissal is considered a decision on the merits for res judicata purposes.”
• “Summary judgment dismissal is considered a decision on the merits for res judicata purposes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).